Picture Galleries > Glazing the Tram
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bead drilling jig.jpg
After we had cut the templates the next job was to cut and drill all the glazing beads. This was a lenthy job and was much halped by a vastly expensive hi tech drilling jig that let us drill all the screw holes at the right angle and in the right position.
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glass inside.jpg
The glass was brought up in the boot of my car and then carried carefully into the tram so that each sheet could be matched up with it's template then fitted in teh correct position.
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first window fitted.jpg
The first window fitted but not fully sealed. 60 years since this was last done in Leeds. A very heartening sight.
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corner lead.jpg
The curved corners of the tudor arch style winows are beaded with cast lead beads. We still had 15 of the 20 oriignals and paul cast the other five for us. It makes a neat job.
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glazier.jpg
Richard Hancock, from Cyril Isaacs and Co fiting the second widow at D end. He enjoyed it as it gave him chance to do a bit of glazing again. He's only been doing it 27 years and made it look so easy.
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beaded corner.jpg
A corner at D end after the beads had all been tacked into place and Richard had put a small fillet of mastic betwen the glass and the bead to seal it. Jim and I would ahve spent all day doing it then 2 weeks claening up the mess.
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window label.jpg
Each piece of glass is uniquly identified and kite marked, on it's edge, and labelled with it's area and weight. In total we fitted 2 1/2 cwt of glass to the tram today. The labels will be saved as part of the tram's documentation.
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the end result.jpg
The end result, a glazed tram 6 years after we started. We still have some of the old glass. The new glazing looks superb. Well worth the effort.
